Prolific Academic Survey Alerts

Slinky

Slinky said:

Anybody done this one?

Real-time social interaction study (£1.5 + 30% chance to get a bonus of £1)

By esade.edu

£1.50 • £6.00/hr

15 mins

1 place

In this 15-mins study, the main task is an online negotiation with another person from Prolific. Specifically, you will be paired with another person from Prolific, and negotiate with that person using an online chatroom that we provide.

• If we are able to pair you, and you complete the negotiation and answer follow-up questions, you will receive £1.5.
• In addition, you will receive an extra £1 bonus if your negotiation outcome is better than 70% of the participants who have the same material as you in this study.

I thought I was lucky, there was 1 spot available and I got it. Then I found myself in a waiting room, waiting for anothere participant, with the researcher's notes saying they would aim to match me with another participant and to wait a few minutes, and if they couldn't match me, I'd be paid 50p. Well I waiting for about 5-7 minutes, with nobody being matched to me, and given I was the last slot it didn't look like anybody was likely to be, so I eventually bombed out and returned the survey. I contacted the researcher with no response as yet. If nothing by tomorrow I will be putting in a complaint.

I've just been paid the 50p

Sapindus

Road Safety

By cardiff.ac.uk

£3.75 • £6.94/hr

32 mins

0 places

In this experiment you will be presented with nine scenarios involving various traffic situations and responding to questions relating to your opinions and attitudes.

Curious to know if anyone else did this one.  It was a nice enough study with diagrams of road safety incidents and you had to assess blame etc.  The odd thing was that in the middle of the information sheet it said "as this is a pilot study you will not be compensated" and then something about but you will be contributing to science!

I don't see how they can get out of paying except by rejecting the submission., which isn't going to wash.  I'm assuming it may have been accidentally left in after they tested it on students?

elsien

theonlywayisup said:

elsien said:

Information seeking study- 2 sessions from the University of Glasgow. £18 for the two session, 180 minutes.

Done the first one, which did indeed take the full 90 minutes.
The instructions say that 
"As this study includes a 24 hour delay, Prolific will likely tell you that you have "timed out" of this experiment. However, as long as you complete the second session within 24-96 hours after the end of the first session, you can safely ignore this message. Completing both parts of the experiment within the correct time frame will ensure you getting paid."

Does that mean I just let it time out instead of hitting the complete button after the first session?
Messaged the researcher but still waiting for a reply.

Blimey that sounds odd.  Let us know what happens.  Not really cricket *but what is these days. 

So at the end of the first study they asked for an email address to alert to part 2. Against prolific rules but as they weren't replying to my messages I gave them a throwaway one. Then I let the session time out rather than nocoding it.
Email arrived today with part 2 - no prolific link or message. 
So I finished it  (another hour and a half which left me losing the will to live.)  And the status under submissions has changed from timed out to under review with a completion code . So it's looking hopeful but if I'd not given them an email address I suspect I would have lost out because they say they only pay for both parts being completed. 

MollyR

In such circumstances, you have your Prolific e-mail address which you can give them - and presumably it is possible, in cases of dispute, for Prolific to look at any messages received to that address, as evidence.

elsien

I’ve never worked out how/where to access any emails to the prolific email address. Wouldn’t know where an email sent to me would go. 

If anyone does know how it works I’d appreciate it if they let me know.

MollyR

I think they arrive in your Messages box.

Sapindus

MollyR said:

I think they arrive in your Messages box.

I have wondered this too.  There must be an easy way of testing it - next time you have a study (which seems to be the only time the email address appears) copy and paste it and then try sending yourself an email!

MollyR

The e-mail address is your Prolific ID @email.prolific.co.

elsien

MollyR said:

I think they arrive in your Messages box.

I thought that may have been the case. 

However, I didn’t want to lose £18 by using it then not getting the second study link if that was incorrect. 

Why the researcher couldn’t just send a second link via messages I don’t know.

just emailed myself and will let you know if it arrives. 

elsien

Update. 

The message arrived but it went straight into the archived folder so there’s no message alert on prolific itself.
 I did get the email telling me I’ve got a message with a link to it though. But you wouldn’t spot it if you were just looking on prolific for new messages.